Educational film on health and hygiene. Glands and their functions are identified on an inanimate model in the United States. An inanimate model shows oil glands which keep scalp and hair healthy. The inanimate model shows tear glands which clean and lubricate the eyes. Salivary glands and gastric glands aid in digestion. The inanimate model depicts that the internal secretion of the thyroid gland influences the activity of the brain and nerves.
From a early 1920s educational film on health and hygiene for girls. Clip focuses on sexual education, targeted to a female audience. Female organs and their functions are identified on an inanimate model in the United States. Sex glands shown on the inanimate model. Reproductive system overview with summary that healthy condition of these organs makes for happy wife hood and successful motherhood. The reproductive system shows ovaries, egg cells and fallopian tubes through which the egg cells reach uterus. `A fertilized ovum grows into a baby in the uterus. Vagina is the tube opening outward from the uterus. Reproductive system diagram depicts a male sperm cell fertilizing an ovum within the body of mother. An animated diagram shows that for nine months the child is kept warm, protected and fed within the womb. A fetus grows in the womb and the child is pushed out through the vagina into the outer world. A nurse cleans and bathes an infant child in a wash tub basin. Reproductive system depicts menstrual flow.
Health education film from the early 1920's in the United States. Shows effects of gonorrhea and syphilis in the children of disease sufferers in the United States. Contrasting scenes of healthy children playing, and healthy happy 1920's families with wife, husband, and boy and girl children are shown. Opens with a sickly infant suffering from syphilis and birth defects passed on from the father. Girls born blind due to gonorrhea are seen playing with a ball. The disease has been passed on from the father to the mother. Contrasting scenes show healthy children as they climb a stone wall and tree. A girl holds flowers and boy and girl children gather nearby, all wearing early 20th century 1920s era clothing. A man proposes marriage to a woman as they sit on the steps of a house. He puts an engagement ring on her finger. Husband in suit enters a backyard. His son runs toward him happily to greet him. His wife and another child approach to greet him. Hammock in the background. Children play with their mother and father. Boys somersault on the lawn.
A dramatization shows Dr. O'Leary discussing diagnosis, treatment and general care taken in syphilis in the United States. Dr. O'Leary tells an engaged couple about syphilis. The girl clarifies her doubts. Doctor James R. McCord advises her for a medical examination for syphilis before marriage.
Dr. James R. McCord gives a lecture in the United States on the diagnosis, treatment and general care taken during syphilis. Dr. James R. McCord from Emory University speaks on the treatment of syphilis in prospective mothers. A chart explains the outcome of latent untreated syphilis during pregnancy. Dr. McCord says that syphilis should be diagnosed during pregnancy by routine blood test. A chart depicts 95% healthy babies without syphilis and 5% with congenital syphilis. A 5 month pregnant woman seated in a chair for the diagnosis of congenital syphilis. Blood pressure of the woman is taken. A chemist works in a laboratory. A pregnant woman is examined by a doctor. A sign on a poster reads "Syphilis kills babies, Control syphilis". The poster depicts that proper treatment of the expectant mother prevents infection in the unborn child. A woman gives instructions about the prevention of syphilis.
Soviet Foreign Minister V.M.Molotov secretly visits Washington DC, during World War II (May/June 1942) A four engine Soviet TB-7 (a.k.a Petlyakov Pe-8) bomber with the crew standing beneath its wing. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, Soviet Ambassador Maksim M. Litvinov, and Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov stand near the door of the airplane. A Soviet officer talks. Soviet crew members climb into the airplane. Molotov bids goodbye to General Marshall and the others. Molotov then boards the airplane. The Soviet bomber taxis out, for the return journey to the USSR (which will proceed via Gander ,Newfoundland).
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